The Board denied the claim for service connection for the cause of the veteran's death due to lack of evidence showing that lung cancer was caused by or related to his service-connected disabilities.
The deciding factor: Lung cancer was first medically shown nearly three decades after service and not linked to any service-connected disability.
- Claimed conditions
- Metastatic Lung Cancer
- How they argued it
- Direct service connection
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- February 5, 2001
- Citation
- 0103488
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- Granted
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